jazzbo

Swing is overall disappointing. . . for me it has all the worst most noodlesome aspects that the personnel sometims bring to dates, and Santana is really not doing HIS thing and it just is boring. When it first came out I spun it and spun it and spun it on cassette trying to like it. Then I bought it and cd and rinsed and repeated. Still don't really like it.

Shoot. I ordered the Shepp, Rudd and Shorter. I'm so broke all the king's men wil have one big job ahead of them.

I usually get a few hours (sometimes as much as three) of listening in before my wife wakes up and "Sunday" on CBS is turned on. This year I have had a tradition of playing Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" (one of three versions, original, Detroit mix, or the live version, all found on the Deluxe Edition) as my sort of ersatz Sunday Service. It's really beginning to mean something to me. Otherwise I just try to get caught up on listening; I usually get a few more hours in later int he day.

Well, we're not all as picky as you are Jim!

Ah they're all good. Throw in another of my favorites as wel, "Borboletta," laid back, gorgeous stuff. Hopefully there will be a remaster soon enough.

I actually think The Rajah is a pretty cool date, but not at that price! There are some bargains on half.com though. I heartily recommend the Ray Drummond cd you can find sealed for $.75 (100 times cheaper than the Morgan cd!) "Vignettes". . . ! It's a good one.

There are lp downloads and single track downloads as well! http://www.sabadabada.com/music.htm

Fantastic record, yes indeed! Rest of the cd art is pretty good too!

Fantastic album with pretty interesting cover. . . .

Not one of my favorite lp covers, but fantastic lp!

But wait a minute! I'm more of a drummer. . . .

It's the GUITAR lover in me that likes this one a lot. . . .

Yes, I'll agree, but I didn't think that was even implied!

I love "Mingus Plays Piano" as well. It's one of the few recordings I've kept more than one "version" of. I sold the US Impulse version; I had before and still have the Mobile Fidelity silver version which sounds great and I have since bought a Japanese lp facimile 24 bit version that is quite quite nice. Just so intimate and so deep; it's riveting stuff.

Gee, they can sell popular cds about 10 times, and get 30% each time. . . doing the math they come out ahead. I sense record company lawyers hovering and ready to pounce however!

Yes, I wonder if they still have those undubbed tapes around. . .they did the SACD using the Mingus dubbed tape and I wish they hadn't!

No, it's not "jazzbo" bidding on this. Won't say I'm HAPPY with the Connoisseur, but I'm holding steady with it for now!

Okay. . . I confess. . .I used my intellectual battering ram!

Actually, that list looked to me like an appropriate one to chronicle the trumpet style that Arturo seems to really really dig. There are other trumpet styles. . . unrepresented. Maybe he should have added Mario Bauza and Doc Cheatam. The ringer in this list seems to me to be Bix. We would make a different list, each of us. I mean I don't personally feel that Lee Morgan and Booker Little contributed that much to the tradition. Some great music, yeah. But innnovations in trumpeting? Not to my way of looking at it.

Marty, as one Mingus nut to another, I agree entirely with your post above! I've been CHAMPIONING "East Coasting" for a long time. A truly special recording. And I see "Stormy Weather" trumpeted around a lot, hardly underappreciated. (Deservingly so, but I still like the Hadi-Knepper-Shaw band material a hair more for the denser front line and for the piano. . . . Me likey a piano with Mingus).

Sure looks purty.

I hope it was more a persuasive nudge than a knock! I'm really quite peaceful, really, I am. Really!

I feel better now! By the way, I think all the dates sound really good, and I may like the realistic sound of the first two discs, the only private recordings, as much or better!

Not yet. Soon. Will be worth whatever the wait.

What, Cary gets thanked and I don't? Scandalous! Anyway you're right, Chatelet is mispelled in the source document.